The letter below failed to meet the literacy requirements of The Age notwithstanding the ad by Clive Palmer they chose to publish on page one.

Dear Editor,

As I follow the leader of the Liberal Party, he is against constitutional change for a voice of First Nations, but he is for constitutional recognition of First Nations.  We will see you, but we will not hear you.  Like children, they should be seen, but not heard. 

The white man’s burden is enough to make an old man cry.  I have never known a worse time to be Australian.  And all for party politics.  How bloody small and mean a nation are we?

Yours truly,